I am not really looking for anyone to answer these questions, because these aren't questions that require opinions. Call it thinking aloud or simply put, incidents like these absolutely make no sense; they freeze my brain.
When will these murders stop?
How does a mother strangle her newborn?
More importantly, why would a mother do such a thing? What would prompt her?
Is she the only one to be blamed? Really? How can culture have such a stronghold on people?
#feamlefeticide #genderedarrangements #India #brainstops 
​www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/mother-kills-newborn-girl-at-hospital-police-say-she-did-not-want-a-third-daughter/story-Q0cMJ2RBY7agu0oVxiSxFI.html
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numbers

collaborators

While boys continue to be born in India,  5 girls are killed every minute before they are born. That is 7000 girls a day, and approximately 2,600,000 a year because of their sex alone. 
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Manisha Sharma, writing
Kim Cunio, music composition 
Akshay Sharma, design
​Gautham Dayal, software programing

the project

sponsors

The Vanishing addresses this issue in a book manuscript of poems and an art-sound installation. ​

$10, 000
Autodesk

SEAD grant: $3000
The Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology ( ICAT) at Virginia Tech.